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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

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Butter Factories

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 2

MR. ORAM returned to Crookwell yesterday. During his week's absence he has visited the celebrated Bombe quarries, every place of interest in and around…

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The Arrears of Pastoral Rents

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 2

THE Storekeeper, a Sydney journal, says : -- The Minister for Lands recently insisted upon the payment of arrears of pastoral rents under pain of forfeiture of leases…

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Export of Victorian Butter

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 2

THE following is an extract from a communication from Mr. D. Watson, the dairy export, to the Minister for Agriculture of Victoria, respecting the export of…

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Butter and Fruit for England

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 2

A PROPOSAL is under the consideration of the Victorian Minister of Agriculture to extend the system under which very successful results have attended the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 8

Competition was again very active at the woo sales on Wednesday. The catalogues comprised 5041 bales, and the sale of 4830 bales is reported. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co (limited) brought…

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Difficulty in the Wool Trade. LONDON, Jan. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 January 1890 · page 4

The labourers employed on the wool floors of the docks have made arrangements to hold a meeting on Wednesday next, at which they will consider how to secure the abolition of a system…

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Laggan Butter Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 21 January 1890 · page 3

A MEETING of the directors of the Laggan Butter Factory Company was held at McAlister's Tattersall's hotel on Saturday evening. There were present Messrs…

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Wheat for Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1890 · page 4

A Cootamundra telegram states:— The Goulburn millers have stopped supplies from here of wheat, as the railway yards at Goulburn are blocked with enormous wheat traffic. One…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1890 · page 4

AT the auction wool sales on Monday catalogues comprising 4422 bales were submitted. For good wools competition was active, and late prices were maintained, but inferior wools…

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The Wool Sales in the Colonies. LONDON, Jan. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1890 · page 4

Letters have appeared in the Daily News complaining that the wool sales held in the Australian colonies are the means of depriving London of the best Continental customers…

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The European Beet Sugar Crop. LONDON, Jan. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1890 · page 2

Mr. F. O. Licht states that the production of beet sugar for the past four months shows an increase of 550,000 tons. He estimates that the present campaign will result in a surplus of…

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Australian Butter

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 2

As everything appertaining to the sale of butter must be of interest to our readers, we publish the following, taken from the Evening News:— "The butter shipped…

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Wool Sales

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 2

THE NEW Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report having submitted a catalogue of 1287 bales wool at their weekly sale. The offerings…

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The Wheat Market

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 2

THE Sydney market is still in an unsettled state. The quality of grain generally speaking is not of the best, and it is now known that the rust has…

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Sydney Wool Market. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 2

The wool market is again very brisk for greasy and scoured wools. Washed fleece are dull. We offered 900 bales, and sold 840 up to 10½d for greasy, and 16d for washed. For…

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Song of the Farmer's Wife

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 January 1890 · page 4

MONDAY is for washing, Tuesday is for ironing, Wednesday is for mending and putting clothes away…

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Cattle Sale-yards

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 3

IT will be remembered by those interested in the question of the sale-yards, that a committee of six aldermen was appointed some weeks ago to enquire into the matter of purchasing Marsden's…

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The Exportation of Butter

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 8

THERE is considerable difference of opinion in Melbourne with regard to the question of exporting butter to London. The Victorian Government has recently been encouraging this…

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Another Sheep-shearing Machine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 3

The Australian sheep shearer, which was formerly known as "Suckling's patent," was the subject of a public trial on Thursday at the New Zealand Loan…

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The Antwerp Wool Sales. LONDON, Jan. 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 January 1890 · page 3

The Antwerp wool sales are rather flat. There is only a medium attendance of buyers. There is a fall of 10 per cent., all round on November prices. Two thousand bales were offered, of…

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